Quotes About Hardship

If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

War is an option of difficulties.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

All my life I've been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn't funny

Life is never completely without its challenges.

The way back was harder, and no getting around that-no truth I learned struggling back, except that life is struggle. It placed me in some gray realm beyond, a landscape of exertion and anguish. I had nothing left to give, and yet still I had something left it give.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

An dem Ort, an dem wir recht haben, werden niemals Blumen wachsen im Frühjahr. Der Ort, an dem wir recht haben, ist zertrampelt und hart wie ein Hof.

Leaving is hard, even when a great adventure awaits you.

There is a biblical benchmark I now use. We will refer to this criterion for every hard question, big idea, topic, assessment of our own obedience, every "should" or "should not" and "will" or "will not" we ascribe to God, every theological sound bite. Here it is: If it isn't also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn't true.